Farmworld by svenardo

made by svenardo for LD26 (COMPO)

To play: choose new game. Move around with arrow keys. When you're too tired to move around, press the enter key to rest. Explore everything with the 'E' key. Find the golden potato, and you win.
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Thanks for the feedback - mindless exploring of empty tiles was a thing I hadn't thought of, and an empty tile should not yield results. A classic bug.

Definitely would like to flesh this out. Combat was meant to be minimalistic, but I guess I made it so minimalistic it got boring ;). More on the development of the game here: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2013/04/27/a-minimalist-rpg/

Web	http://play.svenardo.com/farmworld/
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=19180

Ratings

Coolness	35%	1636
Overall	2.52	1161

Fun	2.32	1101
Graphics	2.60	901
Humor	2.68	284
Innovation	2.48	997
Mood	2.43	984
Theme	2.92	1080

Feedback

Suese

29. Apr 2013 · 06:37 UTC

Would have been better with sound.

Jaus_LXXIV

29. Apr 2013 · 06:48 UTC

It's ok. Battles are pretty simple and don't require much decision making. It seems kind of mindless hunting each square for a random event, I don't feel very motivated to keep trying. Especially after I found you can get infinite gold by spamming the 'E' key on an empty space :0 then it's just a matter of buying hundreds of health and stamina pots.

stefenism

29. Apr 2013 · 06:49 UTC

I like this game. It seems like you could have benefitted from more time. Same here.

egos

29. Apr 2013 · 21:04 UTC

nice game

fueelin

30. Apr 2013 · 04:48 UTC

I got owned pretty hard. In fights and by the level generation. Unless I wasn't getting something...

JokerDen

30. Apr 2013 · 09:17 UTC

It have great idea (love explore new worlds). It random generated?

foul

30. Apr 2013 · 09:40 UTC

I was stucked in a isle at top left, and there was no golden potatoe there .. The gameplay needs to be revised as i was suffering simply by moving around - figured out that i need stamina when i was at 12hp.. and it seems that I have potions available only in battles. Overall the game have potential.

🎤 svenardo

30. Apr 2013 · 13:26 UTC

Thank you all. I think I planned for more than I could deliver, so I'm sort of unhappy with the end result in that regards. Things that I think worked was the random map generation and generally exploring. I do like the explore button, but I think I overdid it. Also, the load/save dynamic works very well.
Overall, not a great game at present, but I there are stuff I like and will keep developing.

LTyrosine

01. May 2013 · 03:52 UTC

Nice work for 48 hours. Sound is really missing. Also you could make WASD keys to work. Is somewhat hard to use arrow keys + mouse (Here A/D are working but not W/S). I really liked the concept and see ground to build a nice game with more work. Nice job!

Spotlightor Gao

02. May 2013 · 03:02 UTC

Exploring the world is really fun. Some hints when stamina is low will be better.

Dietrich Epp

06. May 2013 · 07:32 UTC

Kinda hard to pay attention in battle, because there's a lot of text to read. Nice simple mechanic. Got spawned on an island once, with no way off: http://imgur.com/nuDlhwY

DDRKirby(ISQ)

19. May 2013 · 22:14 UTC

Good attempt.